Device for hoisting wagon-bodies



No. 62I,I64. Patented Mar; l4, I899. J. HLSIMUNTDN.

DEVICE FOR HOISTING WAGON BODIES.

(Application filed Aug. 8, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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J'NITED STATES JOHN II. SIMONTON, OF BRIGHTON, TENNESSEE.

DEVICE FOR HOISTING WAGON-BODIES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 621,164, dated March 14, 1899.

Application filed August 8, 1898.

T0 on whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. SIMONTON, a citizen of the United States, residing in Brighton, in the county of Tipton and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hoisting W'agon -Bodies; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide a device for hoisting wagon-bodies which shall be light in weight, simple and inexpensive to make, consisting of few parts, and adapted when not in use to occupy but little space and being at the same time eflicientin operation and durable in construction.

The invention consists in certain details of construction, substantially as shown in the drawings and hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of my said device. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, showing the device applied to a wagon-body; and Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the same applied to the Wagon-body and, together with Fig. 2, illustrating the manner of using it.

In the accompanying drawings, A, represents the wagon-body, having attached to the under side thereof at its end the usual cleats B, only the rear one of which is shown.

The hoisting devices, one for each end of the wagon-body, consist each of a frame composed of two side pieces 0, two parallel crossbars F F, connecting the sides 0, near one end of the latter, and a winding-shaft-as, for instance, the roller or elongated pulley D, journaled in said pieces 0, near their opposite ends, said roller or pulley having attached to it at. convenient points thereon cables (shown herein as cords) E,which are adapted to wind upon the same, for purposes hereinafter set forth.

The horizontal bars F F are situated far enough apart to allow the same to be applied to the lower end of the wagon, so that the end of the body will project between the side pieces 0 O and between the bars F F, with the bar F resting against the inner side of the cleat B and the bar F against the end Serial No. 688,022. (No model.)

of the wagon, thereby holding the frame at an angle to the end of the wagon-body, so that the roller projects outwardly beyond the end of the body in a position where it can be conveniently operated. Upon one end of the roller is secured a crank G for rotating the same, the handle H of which is loosely connected with the crank and adapted to slide endwise therein, so as to be moved into contact with the side pieces in order to provide a brake for the hoisting device. This device may be suspended by cords E from any suitable support I by hooks J, and, as heretofore stated, another of the hoisting devices is provided for raising the other end of the wagonbody, only one end ofthe wagon-body being shown in the drawings.

The apparatus being applied to the wagonbody in the manner heretofore described and clearly shown in the drawings and the crank then being turned will rotate the'roller D, which will wind the cords E upon it, and thereby raise the wagon-body. When the body has reached the required height and it is desired to let it remain in its elevated position, the'crank is brought to the position shown in dotted lines, Fig. 2, and the handle H pushed in toward the wagon until it rests upon the side piece 0, by which operation the crank is prevented from turning and the body of the wagon thereby held in the position to which it is hoisted. When it is desired to lower the body or to unwind the cords, the handle is pushed outward,when the weight of the device or whatever is held up by it will cause the ropes to turn the roller backward and unwind the cords.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. In a device for hoisting wagon-bodies,

same by engaging on opposite sides of the lower edge of the Wagon-body to automatically clamp the frame to said body, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN H. SIMONTON.

Witnesses:

A. M. Moosn, A. J. SIMONTON. 

